Brad Botkin
Assistant Managing Editor and NBA Writer at CBS Sports
NBA writer @CBSSports. Quick twos are stupid.
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2 weeks ago |
cbssports.com | Brad Botkin |Jack Maloney |Sam Quinn |Colin Ward-Henninger
The NBA Finals were supposed to be a walkover. The Indiana Pacers were staggering +700 underdogs. The only team ever to win the Finals with those odds were the 2004 Detroit Pistons. The Oklahoma City Thunder, winners of 68 games and holders of the greatest regular-season point-differential in NBA history, looked downright unbeatable for most of the Western Conference finals. They passed their test against a seasoned champion in the second round against the Denver Nuggets.
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2 weeks ago |
cbssports.com | Brad Botkin
The 2025 NBA Finals got off to a rousing start with the Indiana Pacers' miraculous 111-110 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 on Thursday night. Tyrese Haliburton made a game-winning pull-up jumper with 0.3 seconds to complete a 15-point fourth-quarter comeback and steal home-court advantage from OKC. Game 2 is set for Sunday, and could be even more intense than the opener. Neither of these cities has technically won a title.
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3 weeks ago |
cbssports.com | Brad Botkin
Entering Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Finals, the Indiana Pacers were already having probably the most miraculous playoff run in NBA history. You figured, if any shred of statistical and/or basketball logic still existed in the world, the luck would run out. Tyrese Haliburton, who is on some kind of magical carpet ride right now, had other ideas.
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3 weeks ago |
cbssports.com | Brad Botkin
The Indiana Pacers continued their incredible run in the 2025 postseason with another miraculous comeback to defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder, 111-110 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night. Indiana trailed by as many as 15 points in the fourth quarter, and didn't take its first lead until Tyrese Haliburton's game-winning jump shot with 0.3 seconds left. This sets the stage for what should be a captivating Game 2, set for Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.
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3 weeks ago |
cbssports.com | Brad Botkin |James Herbert |Sam Quinn |Jack Maloney
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No way todays players could hang with these boys. Steph would be lost.
Wilt def dropped 100 in his era 😂 https://t.co/m2TowfOVyp
Goat
Bill Simmons predicts Mathurin will have a Finals game where he scores 27 points in 22 minutes Mathurin last night: 27 points in 22 minutes Clairvoyant Bill strikes again! https://t.co/SmWgP2wNxB
Or it tells you there isnt much difference between most coaches. A few extremes on both ends perhaps
I've said this a lot recently. I think Joe Mazzulla's ascension should change the way we think of NBA coaching searches. He went from second-row assistant to top-10 coach in two years. That tells me there's a lot of untapped basketball genius in unexpected places. Go find it.
